Microsoft have seen their smartphone ambitions hit once again after losing the first round of a patent battle that could result in their handsets being banned from the US. The International Trade Comm…

Tech manufacturers Lenovo and Acer have unveiled new phones with significantly larger than usual batteries. However, Lenovo’s phones, the K80 and the A5000 will only be sold in Asia, with the former h…

Apple is returning more money to investors after their profits started to soar. The tech giant reported a 33% improvement on year-to-year profits during the first quarter, selling 61.1 million iPhones…

Staff at tech site iFixit have claimed that new owners of the Apple Watch won’t be able to rely on their device for years to come. It says that Apple have made sure that the technology the Watch is ba…

Consumers all around the world are posting reviews on the Apple Watch after the wearable tech started shipping last week. One blogger has uploaded a video about the device and branded it “solid”, sayi…

Amazon says that its AWS business generated sales of $1.57 billion during the first quarter of 2015. The company said that the business was “growing fast”, with its total revenues for the quarter up b…

Ellen Pao – the woman who recently lost a high-profile Silicon Valley sexism case – has been instructed to pay legal costs of almost $1 million. Pao is planning to appeal the jury’s decision, although…

Shares in Facebook have fallen due to higher costs. Shares fell by 2% in after-hours trading after the company posted slower-than-expected revenue growth. Research and development costs have been eati…

Google has announced the launch of its new mobile phone network. The network, called Project Fi, is to connect users to open Wi-Fi hotspots, as well as to Sprint and T-Mobile. The company is renting v…

YouTube has decided to retire an older version of its app, meaning that users of older devices may no longer be able to access the service. The decision is likely to affect owners of pre-2013 devices …

HBO is taking action against users outside the UK using tools to access its Now service. The company is threatening to cut off non-US Now users who have used VPNs and other tools to access the service…